Falcons owner may seek out big-name head coach for next year
 

According to CBS Sports, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank is expected to seek a big-name, new head coach for next season. Current coach Mike Smith is not expected to be back next season, according to a source of CBS Sports.

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It's a good thing CBS doesn't pass "opinion", or plain **** they make up, as news.

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That's terrible news! Please keep ol Coach Smitty! He's given us Saints fans so much joy and satisfaction!C'mon Blank, make it happen! In Blank we trust! lol

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Getting the big name worked for Tampa

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Well, I hope they aren't suggesting Harbaugh (SF), for two reasons:

1) He will fire up a team & motivate them into a few championships before totally disenfranchising them down the road, but not before turning them into a decent team that could potentially rule the NFC South.

2) His alma mater desperately, desperately needs him as a HC! Phone home Jim, phone home .... :)

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I can see that happening. And I hope it doesn't.

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Little to no success developing players. You can run on for a little while like that but eventually it catches up to you. We loss the game but our players are getting better; Hill, Lelito, Cadet are all making big strides. I can't think of one player for them they turned into a real starter.

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I agree. I think the problem with the falcons is, the coach wants to build a "grind it out", "4 yards and a cloud of dust" ball control, no mistakes offense, but they have a GM that is building a high octane, down field, up tempo team.

That and he can't hit on a draft pick unless he throws in so much he can't miss.

Somebody on another forum posted today that there are only 3 starters on the falcon's offense that were drafted by Dimisomethingorother. And all of them were top 6 picks.

Their number 1 pick this year is graded as the worst offensive lineman in the league, at any position, back up or starter this season by PFF at -31.2.

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Bring in Brian Billick to replace his Brother in Law, keep it in the family.
He will take the Falcons on a ride they will never forget!

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You have the best coach, your team just Stinks!

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I agree but I thought I heard the two (Smith And Dimitroff) both being on the hot seat. I just assumed they would both be fired.

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Well Harbaugh hasn't even given SF a ring yet. And chances are he may not this year either because as it stands now I see SF not getting in the postseason. How would he do that with the falcons where there is another good HC in the division and knowing Ryan is not the better qb? Knowing no one wins this division back to back years also. I will say this, I think Atlanta will win the south in 2015 and we will have to win as a wild card. But they are not winning a sb and when they do I believe our FO will blow the team up.

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We might need a new head coach if this Jekyll and Hyde performance continues.

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True, but he did take a team that hadn't finished above .500 for something like ten seasons before his hiring & immediately put them atop the Division with a trip to the SuperBowl ... Failclown fans would take that over what they got now. I'm pretty sure he did the same kind of thing in college as well; elevating his programs to play above their potentials and overachieve somewhat.

It's more about his persona and coaching style over what level of competition he'll face, opposing talent, et... He is a proven winner (albeit an ass) and he wins on just sheer force of will and the ability to motivate those around him to buy into his program. It only lasts for a few years and is more suitable to college level and I may or may not have posted about that in discussions back in 2011 as that's about the time I joined B&G. Like a Red Bull/Monster, he'll pump the program up, but it'll eventually burn off & he'll wear out his welcome, leaving everyone fatigued, as evidenced in SFran.

He is the ideal type of coach if your program has hit the skids because he will come in, shake things up, restore order & discipline and get athletes to believe in themselves. Powerful stuff ... only you have to sell him your soul as he pretty much demands full control of everything.

So, that's how he'll do that for Can'tlanta, IMO. Not digging on SP or DB, it's just Harbaugh has a long history of doing it and there's arguably enough talent on any given NFL roster (minus OAK/JAX) for a coach of his caliber to reasonably be successful in a short amount of time.

Let's just hope for the sake of everyone involved, the prospect of returning to his alma mater & resurrecting their football program from the dead has vast more appeal than an NFL gig, :).

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Well said Slo.....I wanted to say the same thing, so you just saved me a s**tload of typing! lol. Truth is,I would not be thrilled if they hired Harbaugh.

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Yeah, I want to be a paperback writer, :lol: ... this board could use some Beatles, ;).

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Mike Smiths wife is good friends with Robin Meade...........she is one sharp lady.(and she's hot)

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Say it isn't so Mike! Not the "we're 1-0" speech in Wk #9! :rofl: ... the guy with the Johnny Unitas haircut in the background is thinking, "Funny, I don't feel like 1-0" ... those silly Falcons, I don't want them to change a single thing, :lol:.

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The only way Mike Smith keeps his job is if there is a huge turnaround with the remainder of the season. Smith knows it and he doesn't seem to let it worry him. The players are determined to win as many as they can regardless of where it leaves the team as far as future draft picks.

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Mike Smith is a big name!

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Rumor has it that Dan Reeves plans to sign a deal with King Arthur
and return to Coach Atlanta. Also included in the package is a two year deal with Geritol as their corporate spokesman.

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They could be inaginative and consider Bob Stoops.

There's Marty Schottenheimer. 14 letters. Not many NFL head coaches had a bigger name than that.

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They can have Sean Payton or Rob Ryan if they want?

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This thread could be reading Saints instead of Falcons after this Bengal game.

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Time will tell.
Dec 31-Jan. 15 will be here soon enough.

Coach 's pink slip days, LOL!!!

SF49'ers Harbough is rumored to be first coach on his way out first .....we shall see. NYJ's Ryan? You can say he is all but gone.
Interesting there, I heard on NFL Net is that SF49's Harboughs 'wife DOES NOT want to leave SF Bay /N. California area. Maybe, rumors are, he could end up at OakRaids.

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... and he'd deserve it, :). If he can't see his way back to his alma mater, then he deserves to be cast down with the 'scalawags', :lol:.

"Welcome to Shawshank, Mr. Harbaugh ... "

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What if Mike Smith win she NFC South... yikes!